Friday 4 December 2009

Business data for the Horror genre

In 2008 28 horror films were released, bringing in a gross box office take in of 23.4 million. The top performer was Saw V. The horror genre had 126 sites at widest point of release from 28 films, only 5 per cent of films released in 2008 were horror though. Horror films are classified as "15" or "18". The majority of films released in 2008 were certificate "15", 193/527; there were only 51 "18's" released. Certificate "18" films have been consistently the lowest earner, with Sweeney Todd being the best performer of 2008.

1 comment:

  1. i think more could be said about this genre. some of this is a little confusing too. look first at the UK film council info (my blog links), then examine the box office takings. order the info so the average reader can make sense of it too.

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